Sunday, February 11, 2018

Virginia pioneers DECEASED make their triumphant return to Portland to deliver the wrath of true horror metal! Led by exuberant heavy metal historian King Fowley, DECEASED was the first band to sign to Relapse Records in 1990, and they have continuously raised the banner of underground death metal as bullshit musical trends have come and gone! Since forming in 1984, the band has only appeared in Portland once (in 2010), and due to van trouble, local headbangers suffered a disappointingly abbreviated set. This time, I'm flying 'em out for a special one-night-only Northwest performance...to set the record straight!!!! UP THE TOMBSTONES!

Seattle/Bellingham deathbangers SLUTVOMIT have been called many things by many people, especially reactionary regional journalists who do not check their facts. Their name has certainly not done them any favors in this regard. What the press has routinely failed to acknowledge is that this blackened horde is one of the heaviest and most promising bands on the West Coast. Fortunately, the rest of the world already figured it out. Experience the swarming darkness that is SLUTVOMIT for yourself and turn the cross towards hell!!!!

Formed in 2012, WITCH VOMIT released Portland's best death metal album of 2016 with their debut full-length A Scream From the Tomb Below. This young power trio delivers gore strewn riffs, pounding old school rhythms and throat eviscerating vocals from beyond the grave in the macabre old school tradition. WITCH VOMIT wields the blade and leaves behind incriminating forensic evidence that the underground is alive and very undead!

DJ Dennis Dread: Intrepid war chief will perilously suspend himself behind turntables stage left and spill whiskey all over his vinyl so YOU don't have to suffer through bullshit music in between bands.